The Merchant of
Venice first played 1596 - 1598
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The Merchant of Venice is one of
William Shakespeare's [ 1564 - 1616 ] best-known plays, written
sometime between 1596 and 1598. Although it is sometimes classified as a
comedy
("comedy" had a very different meaning at the time; see
Shakespearean comedies) and shares certain aspects with the other
romantic comedies, it is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes
(particularly the trial scene) and is best known for its portrayal of the
Jew
Shylock, which has raised questions of
anti-Semitism.
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Shylock abused his dominant position against a debtor who was desperate. He
wanted his pound of flesh. The expression has passed into the language. That
pound was to be the payment of his side of the contract.
The Jew of Malta
first played in 1592 AD
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The Jew of Malta was a
success in its first recorded performance at the
Rose theatre in early
1592,..... The
play remained popular for the next fifty years, until England's theatres were
closed in 1642.....
The Jewish merchant in question, Barabas, is
introduced as a man owning more wealth than all of
Malta. When
Turkish ships arrive to demand tribute, however, Barabas's wealth is seized
and he is left penniless. Incensed, he begins a campaign to engineer the
downfall of the Maltese governor who robbed him.....
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He turned nasty because he got robbed. One sees his point but his story of
treachery, manipulation and unmitigated evil is strongly reminiscent of
Wolfowitz, Feith, Frum, Wurmser and other NeoCons who caused Bush to invade
Iraq and murder hundreds of thousands.
The Blood Libel
- 1475 AD
Murdering Christian children and stealing their blood to use in heathen
ceremonies was never going to get a good press. When it happened to
Saint Simon of Trent [ on 21st March, 1475 A.D.
] people were not amused. A number of Jews were given fair trials and
executed. It was all written up by Professor Toaff, a Jew and historian. He
came to the conclusion that the Jews were guilty and wrote a book about it. He got leaned on big time.
Jews like to suppress the truth so they always refer to this nasty habit as the Blood
Libel. It is fair to say that Madeleine McCann was abducted after Passover so
they could not have used
her blood this year. It may be kept for the next one on 19 April 2008.
Fagin published
in 1838
Was a Jew who ran a gang of thieves in
Oliver Twist, a book
written by Charles
Dickens [ 1812 -1870 ]
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Fagin is noted for being one of the few
Jewish
characters of 19th century literature,.... In an introduction to a 1981 Bantam
Books reissue of Oliver Twist, for example,
Irving
Howe wrote that Fagin was considered an "archetypical Jewish villain.".....
Dickens wrote back to her, saying, "Fagin is a Jew because it is unfortunately
true, of the time to which the story refers, that that class of criminal almost
invariably was Jewish."
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Dickens grew up in poverty and knew of what he wrote
Fagin in the condemned cell.
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Fagin's character was based on the criminal
Ikey
Solomon [ and major criminal - Editor ], who was a
fence at the center of a highly-publicized arrest, escape, recapture, and
trial. Some accounts of Solomon also describe him as a
London
underworld "kidsman". A kidsman was an adult who recruited children and
trained them as pickpockets, exchanging food and shelter for goods the
children stole.
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Balzac and the Jews
from The Occidental Observer [
1789 to 1848 ]
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Balzac’s novels offer entertaining and sharply-observed chronicles of all
facets of French society from 1789 to 1848— from the Revolution through the
First French Empire of Napoleon I, the Bourbon Restoration, the July
Monarchy under Louis Phillipe, to the Second Republic. This era coincided
with the entrance of Jews into mainstream society in Western Europe. Indeed,
Balzac can be credited with being the first novelist to make Jews and
non-Jews live together in the same world.
Jews overwhelmingly supported the French Revolution of 1789 which promised them civic and economic equality. They were officially “emancipated” by a proclamation of the National Constituent Assembly in 1791—the legal culmination of the moral universalism of the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Notwithstanding the proclamation, many leading Enlightenment thinkers, including Voltaire, Kant, d’Holbach and Diderot, regarded Jews as exploitative and enmeshed in medieval superstition and chauvinistic, immoral, exploitative behavior. While Voltaire opposed the Inquisition’s targeting of Jews, he noted in his Philosophical Dictionary that: “You will find in the Jews an ignorant, lazy, barbarous people who for a long time have combined the most undignified stinginess with the most profound hatred for all the people who tolerate them and enrich them.”[5] Kant observed that Jews were “a nation of usurers … outwitting people amongst whom they find shelter. … They let the slogan ‘let the buyer beware’ their highest principle in dealing with us.”[6].....................
About thirty Jewish characters inhabit the pages of La Comédie
Humaine, with a few reappearing in several novels. Despite comprising
an important new part of French society in the domains of the arts and
sciences, the theater, and especially the world of finance, Balzac’s Jewish
characters remain ethnically distinct. Rashkin claims that Balzac’s
unsparing portrayal of Jews (none of whom are given French names), and his
implicit emphasis on “openly converted Jews” and “unseen, infiltrating
Jews,” is evidence of his being “haunted by France’s trauma of Jewish
assimilation.”[9]
Balzac always stresses the uniqueness of Jews, portraying Jewishness as a
strong and troubling trait. Conversion and assimilation in no way erase
Jewish identity which, for Balzac, was fundamentally ethnic.
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Balzac knew them. Was he wrong?
Trilby published in 1894
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Trilby, a
gothic
horror novel by
George du Maurier published in
1894 was one of
the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of
the
Fin de sičcle period. It is set in the 1850s in an idyllic
bohemian Paris.
Though it features the hijinks of three lovable English artists—especially the
delicate genius Little Billee—its most memorable character is
Svengali,
a Jewish rogue, a masterful musician, and an irresistible
hypnotist.
Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a magnificent half-Irish girl
working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; all the men in the novel
are in love with her. The relation between Trilby and Svengali forms only a
small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu,
but it is a crucial one.
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I think the Wiki has understated Svengali's place in the book He was dirty,
greedy, a manipulator, evil and Jewish. Nobody argued with these
propositions at the time. It was after Jews had got back into England and were
known. Trilby had a hat named after her. It is worn to this day.
Rudyard Kipling's
Book Stalky & Co. published in 1899
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When I was eleven, I read
Rudyard Kipling's [ 1865 - 1936 ] brilliant
teen novel "Stalky & Co." for the first time and was perplexed by this passage: "Pay me my
interest, or I'll charge you interest on interest. Remember I've got your
note-of-hand!' shouted Beetle. "You're a cold-blooded Jew," Stalky groaned."....
What did these English public school boys know of Jews? [ Enough to be going
on with - Editor ].
I know that Kipling, like a number of other famous late-Victorian writers, was
more than a little anti-Semitic, [ but the Wikipedia, a major propaganda
operation omits to tell us this. - Editor ] but that doesn't stop me from enjoying his
writing, or that of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and even the sainted George
Orwell, who all displayed similar tendencies at one stage or another of their
careers.
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This mention in Stalky passed me by at the time or I forgot. Jews seem keen to
remember these things.
It is on line at
Stalky and Co so you can read for yourself, think for yourself and decide
for yourself.
PS
Kipling's first language was Hindi. His mother tongue, English came later.
Grimm's Brothers' Fairy Tales And Jews
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The “Anti-Semitism” of Grimm’s Fairy Tales............. Also like the Old Testament, there’s a
noticeable “flatness” to the fairy tales. There is no drama or
character development to speak of, just matter-of-fact recitations of
what happens next. Uncensored, politically incorrect — folklore in the
raw. Given that, I had to wonder how, exactly, the Jews of old Europe
would have been considered at the time these tales were being passed
around.................
In the back, there is an “adult” section that includes a heretofore censored tale, “The Jew in the Brambles.” In the tale, a Jewish merchant is forced to dance by a magic violin while stuck in a thicket of painful brambles. Safe to say, Jews are not presented sympathetically in the tale. The player of the magic violin, an honest servant who got the violin from a gnome, tells the Jew, “You’ve skinned people plenty of times. Now the brambles can give you a scraping.” Only when the Jews offers his sack of coins does the torture stop.
From there, the Jew is portrayed as mouthy, a tattletale (he complains about the torture to the local judge). Ultimately, he is hanged as a thief for having stolen the coins himself in the first place. (Loud but hypocritical complaints about injustice and running to the authorities for punishment of enemies do seem to be Jewish attributes that continue to this day.).......
In the introduction by A.S. Byatt, we learn that the British occupying forces in Germany after World War II banned Grimm’s Fairy Tales because “they fed a supposedly bloodthirsty German imagination.” And indeed, the Grimm brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm) did have nationalistic aims, Byatt says. They believed they were “recovering a German mythology and a German attitude to life. They saw themselves as asserting what was German against the French occupying forces of the Napoleonic Empire.”
One scholar quoted mentions that while French tales were “realistic, earthy, bawdy and comical, the German (tales) veer off toward the supernatural, the poetic, the exotic, and the violent.”............
In a biographical sketch of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm contained in
the volume, they are portrayed as poverty-stricken but driven
collectors of a culture: in addition to the tales, they began work on
the German Dictionary and pretty much laid the foundation for the
study of Germanic culture. They seemed to have a sense that this
culture was under attack, and sought to preserve it the best way they
knew how. It’s safe to say they had success.
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There
really is a story about Jews and greed in Grimm's. The rest is
entirely likely to be right.
Jack The Ripper Was A Jew [ 15 July 2006 ]
Chief Inspector Swanson was on the job and knew who did it but the only
witness was another Jew who couldn't talk without dropping himself in it.
Kosminski was put in a lunatic asylum then the murders stopped. This tells us something about
the reality of immigration policy and practice
that we are finding out again the hard way.
Judicial-inc.biz
takes a position and even gives some alleged pictures of his alleged victims. The
Wikipedia does
too; one designed to conceal the truth not reveal it.
Jack the Ripper
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There was writing in white
chalk on the wall
above where the apron was found. Long reported that the
graffiti
read:
"The Juwes are the men That Will not be Blamed for nothing".
Police Superintendent
Thomas Arnold visited the scene and saw the graffiti. He feared that with
daybreak and the beginning of the day's business, the message would be widely
seen and might exacerbate the general
Anti-Semitic sentiments of the populace. Since the Nichols murder, rumours
had been circulating in the East End that the killings were the work of a
Jew dubbed "Leather
Apron". Religious tensions were already high, and there had already been many
near-riots.
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I am pleasantly surprised when the Wiki tells us the truth about its own.
Importing Jews was bad news. At least four of the more or less plausible
Jack the
Ripper suspects were Jews.
Has profiling discovered the real face of Jack the Ripper?
Probably not. The Indy's article ignores Inspector Swanson's
view even though he was the man on the job. It feeds us more suspects. One of
them is another Jew, a shoemaker John Pizer who was the public's choice
for fitting the Ripper's profile.
Coningsby
published in 1844
Was written by
Benjamin Disraeli
[ 1804 - 1881 ] and has Sidonia as the master manipulator dealing with highly
important men all over Europe. It turns out that most of them are Jews.
d'Israeli did not see this as a problem but then he was a Jew too. See
Disraeli Quotes for jaundiced comment.
